Curriculum Committee Minutes for the meeting held on September 17, 2019

Minutes

The Academic Senate Committee on CURRICULUM COMMITTEE met on September 17, 2019 at 2:10 pm in S-415


Committee Members in Attendance:

T. Bayer, T. Holden (Chair), I. Lizzul, J. Murley, J. Nichols, M. Pullin (Academic Affairs), H. Tirandai, P. Wallach (Secretary)


Liaisons in Attendance:

R. Mako (Library Liaison)

Also in Attendance

Belle Birchfield (Engineering Technology)


Business:

The meeting was called to order at 2:10 PM

  1. The minutes of the May 7, 2019 meeting were approved by the committee. 
  1. The committee discussed the letter to department chairs provided by Michael Pullin concerning curriculum change. Instead of sending our own letter to chairs, the committee made some suggestions to be included in the letter from Academic Affairs. 
  1. Committee member Florence Farrat has retired. The Academic Senate Steering Committee will replace her with another member. 
  1. Belle Birchfield, Deputy Chairperson of the Department of Engineering Technology, presented proposals for the department. 
  1. The committee considered the proposed new courses:

    ET-581 Object-Oriented Programming in Java
    ET-756 Database Administration

    After discussing the proposals, the committee voted and the proposals were approved unanimously by those present. 
  1. The committee considered the proposed course revisions:

    MT-341 Applied Mechanics
    ET-574 Programming and Applications with Python
    ET-580 Object Oriented Programming in C++ (title change)
    ET-585 Computer Architecture

    After discussing the proposals, the committee voted and the proposals were approved unanimously by those present. 
  1. The committee considered the proposed program revision of the S. in Computer Science and Information Security (A.S./B.S. Dual/Joint Degree Program with John Jay). After discussing the proposals, the committee voted and the proposal was approved unanimously by those present. 
  1. The committee considered the proposed program revision of the A.S. in Internet and Information Technology. After discussing the proposals, the committee voted and the proposal was approved unanimously by those present. 

The meeting was adjourned at 4:00 PM.


Respectfully submitted,

Patrick Wallach
Committee on CURRICULUM COMMITTEE , Secretary

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